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• Letter of the day: Palin still can raise temperatures -- both on the left and the right
  VINCENT PETERS, NEW BRIGHTON
  
• Readers Write for Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
  Statements and actions attributed to me in the Star Tribune's Nov. 17 article "Gays reject church's attempt to 'cure' them" are pure fabrication. I read that story and marveled that the Star Tribune would accept a quote like that and alleged acts by me without even attempting to find out if they were true -- which they were not.
  
• Letter of the day: Commissioner Johnson's strong suit isn't architecture
  JOE KIMMEL, DAYTON
  
• Readers Write for Monday, Nov. 23
  Gov. Tim Pawlenty's elimination of essential public services through unallotment raises serious and important issues of constitutional law. The question is whether the governor's action was legal, not just whether it was wise.
  
• Readers Write for Saturday, Nov. 21
  I am dismayed by WATCH's call for Hennepin County Court Judge Stephen Aldrich to resign ("Judge's joke puts him in hot spot, again," Nov. 13).
  
• Letter of the Day: For Lutherans, there is sadness, Thanksgiving and dissension
  Letter of the Day: For Lutherans, there is sadness, Thanksgiving and dissension
  
• Readers Write for Sunday, Nov. 22
  How ironic. By blocking the construction of the Big Stone II power plant, environmentalists have ensured that the vast wind potential of South Dakota will not be developed for the foreseeable future because the wind-power developers are unwilling to spend the money for the transmission lines that Big Stone II would have provided.
  
• Letter of the Day: State has bigger priorities than a Vikings stadium
  DENNIS YELKIN, HOPKINS
  
• Readers Write for Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
  "The fiend of 9/11 attacks doesn't deserve civilian court" (Letter of the Day, Nov. 17) has it backwards. A military trial would give Khalid Shaikh Mohammed the respect he wants, but does not deserve.
  
• Letter of the day: Resources are dwindling, and millionaires put hands out?
  GARY STEVENSEN, SHAKOPEE
  
• Readers Write for Thursday, Nov. 19
  It is sickening that drug companies have suddenly jacked up their prices 9 percent while the Consumer Price Index has fallen 1.3 percent in the last year. This is greed, pure and simple, because the companies know that tomorrow they might actually face some honest competition.
  
• Letter of the Day: Cancer screening guidelines sound like a death sentence
  C.S. WALLACE, MINNEAPOLIS
  
• Readers Write for Wednesday, Nov. 18
  The Minnesota House leadership is only a "friend" of the court ("House revives budget fight with Pawlenty," Nov. 17)? After Gov. Tim Pawlenty unconstitutionally breached the separations of powers by usurping legislative power in an unprecedented unallotment action, Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher demonstrated that she was too busy fitting Pawlenty his crown and handing him his scepter to worry about being a "friend" to the state Constitution or the people.
  
• Letter of the day: McCain gave us the gaffe that keeps on gaffing
  BRUCE ANDERSON, CRYSTAL
  
• Letter of the Day: The fiend of the 9/11 attacks doesn't deserve civilian court
  ALEX ADAMS-LEYTES, NEW BRIGHTON
  
• Readers Write for Tuesday, Nov. 17
  Judge Stephen Aldrich is under fire for saying in open court during a domestic case, "I've been married 45 years. We've never considered divorce; a few times murder maybe" ("Judge's joke puts him in hot spot, again," Nov. 13).
  
• Readers Write for Monday, Nov. 16
  A bullying judge vs. a struggling father of five ("Mora man's plea to miss jury duty ends in jail," Nov. 13)!
  
• Letter of the day: Don't burden clinics giving H1N1 shots with a new crisis
  Letter of the day: Don't burden clinics giving H1N1 shots with a new crisis
  
• Readers Write for Sunday, Nov. 15
  Some of the Star Tribune editorial writers, columnists and cartoonists seem to be concerned that conservatives of both parties have insisted that no government health care money be used to pay for abortions. I disagree with their stance.
  
• Letter of the Day: Ambassador to the Vatican should accept Catholic doctrine
  ANTHONY P. BARBATO JR., COON RAPIDS
  
• Readers Write for Saturday, Nov. 14
  It's good news that the counties are going to pick up the premium for the former recipients of General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) who are being placed on the MinnesotaCare program. It's not such good news for the former GAMC people.
  
• Letter of the day: Maybe homegrown Gophers would be a bit more golden
  ROY K. ERICKSON, EDINA
  
• Readers Write for Friday, Nov. 13
  I am a longtime patron of and volunteer at the public libraries of Minneapolis. Changes in the library system since the merger with Hennepin County have become more and more disturbing: The collections at community libraries are shrinking drastically; the demands on staff are increasing as patrons from throughout the county request books from Minneapolis; older books are being eliminated (apparently because these same suburban patrons don't want to receive copies of books that may actually appear to have been read).
  
• Letter of the day: Bridge remnants could be recycled as memorial artwork
  STEVEN HAGBERG, WAYZATA
  
• Readers Write for Thursday, Nov. 12
  I received my Blue Cross renewal for 2010 this week. Another 14 percent increase! As a small-business owner, I cannot understand how anyone says we can't afford to reform health care. I say we can't afford not to reform health care. At the rate of these increases every year, only the wealthiest Americans and government employees will be able to have health insurance.
  

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